Saturday, August 31, 2013

(Christianity
Today, July/August 2013.) This clip is a rip from a full-page ad in the
magazine that, unfortunately, so many people regard as the voice of Protestant
Christianity. Christianity Today is
far from a model of orthodoxy. But I was surprised to see an ad in there
promoting international charismatic mania. It’s hard, I guess, for a magazine
to resist big advertising dollars from an enthusiastic quarter when that
magazine is lax on doctrine and morals to start with.

I knew nothing of Reinhard Bonnke before reading
this ad. As soon as I saw the ad and read it, suspicion filled my heart. Why
was I suspicious? Besides the appearance of show and sham, I suspected evil
because of these words: “Over time my ministry has seen 72 million people
respond to the call of salvation.” Claims like this one are becoming the norm
today among globetrotting wonder-workers who claim to be, as this one does,
‘evangelists from the front line.’ If readers of ads like this would just
consider the number of converts that are claimed, they might soon realize that
such claims must be false. Conversions cause morality to spread. “Wherefore by
their fruits ye shall know them” (Matthew 7.20.) Has any significant part of Africa become changed for the better on account of Mr.
Bonnke’s rip-roaring meetings? What do we hear about on a regular basis on the
news? Whole regions of Africa transformed into
communities of righteous conduct and holy behavior? No, we hear of clan
warfare, machete attacks, and the rapid spread of AIDS on account of fornication
and rape. African superstitions (like sex with a virgin as a cure for, or
preventative against, AIDS) carry on because the large scale conversions
through visiting boasters like Bonnke are not real. The man’s numbers are a
mirage. He does not instruct, the Holy Spirit cannot be with him, and sinners
are not transformed through his meetings. If you were to add up the claims of
these peripatetic showmen, would the numbers not amount to every African soul
being saved by now? People who follow and support anarchic speakers of Bonnke’s
ilk, and who marvel at his wild boasts and worthless wonders as if they were
genuine, need to be amazed at the fact that the numbers do not reflect the
morality on the ground. Such gullible believers must not be very moral themselves,
not very instructed, more subjective than reasonable, and more superstitious
than Scriptural. They would believe in the accretion of conversions even after
the accretions overtopped the population of the world. They would believe in
this even while the world all around them is on fire with sin, crime, war, and
anti-Christian religion. A loud sensationalist says that 72 million souls have
been saved. That is enough for them. He says that ‘America shall be saved.’ They
believe it. Never mind that no nation has ever been wholly saved. The man says
that it will happen. His word settles it. After he passes through and completes
his tour, the nation will continue to believe in gods of every sort, immorality
will increase, the people will still be renown for blasphemy, and the Sabbath
will be scorned again like there is no tomorrow. What will these gullible
believers do then? They will continue to listen to their puffed-up braggart and
go on to believe his next claim for the next nation. Not only this, but they
will continue to empty their pockets to support him financially. The ad says
that the admission in Orlando
will be ‘FREE!’ Further down it is written that America
has enabled financially for the ‘harvest’ in Africa.
Let me assure you that it will enable financially for the vain venture in Orlando as well. Reinhard
Bonnke will exact an exorbitant fee, if not through tickets or at the door,
then through tricky or coercive methods before or during the event. Yes, ‘bring
a friend,’ not for Good News, but to pay the Bonnke fee. There is the plausible
interpretation for you. The meeting will take place in the Amway center. For
the most part, people who come to charismatic meetings like this are not after
salvation, but some temporal aid or a quick fix, which is the same reason why
people flock to Amway conferences. I am no fan of Amway. But an Amway meeting
would be far less deceptive and destructive to the soul than a meeting where
the name of Jesus is disgraced by a lying, barking character such as Reinhard Bonnke.

I would never say all of this without listening to
this man for myself, though what I have written so far I would not doubt the
truth of just on the basis of seeing the ad. After sighting the ad, I decided
to watch one of his performances over the internet. ‘God Uses Ordinary People’
(from 2005) is not a sermon. It is not a speech. It is something akin to a
semi-hysterical rant. My guess is that all of this man’s ‘sermons’ are like
this, crammed with claims and destitute of doctrine. Though rantings and
ravings by men like Bonnke are all alike in their tone (rabid), I was fortunate
to choose the ‘Ordinary People’ tirade. He gives us some of the background in
this one, concerning both his call and popularity. The story of his call to
minister is, not surprisingly, a remarkable one. Being too poor to take a tour
of London, Bonnke ended up bussing around the city and then walking about in
the midst of it. He eventually happened upon the house of a former preacher who
then anointed him for his mission just before he died. And thus did the mantle
of George Jeffreys fall upon Bonnke. That is the story. And it is interesting
to trace the tale backward from George Jeffreys. This Mr. Jeffreys was one of
the men responsible for bringing the ‘gospel of signs and wonders’ to Great
Britain, a man who was converted during the Welsh Revival of 1905 or
thereabouts, which revival was more conspicuous for fanaticism than teaching or
preaching. Jeffreys believed that the Brits are the spiritual and even literal
descendents of the ancient Israelites. Does a belief like that not have a
cultic ring to it? Is that man fit to preach who would believe such obvious
nonsense? Bonnke, not to be surpassed by his predecessor in the fantastic
nature of his claims, asserts, though somewhat indirectly, to be in the line of
apostolic succession!

What was to be the foundation for Reinhard Bonnke’s
ministry? This: preaching on the Baptism of the Spirit, and prayers in unknown
tongues. That is what the Lord told him, he says. Did the Lord say the like to
any New Testament apostle? No, but that doesn’t matter. Why should it? We might
even suppose (not by exposition, for Bonnke doesn’t do any) that Jesus chose
his twelve apostles ‘at random’ as he ‘bumped into them,’ as it were. That is
the revelation to Bonnke for the rest of us, which is for the purpose of
teaching that God uses ordinary people. Yes indeed, Jesus prayed all nite just
to pick apostles at random the following day! The revelation has no support
from Scripture to back it up. No matter. Bonnke needs it to justify his
anti-intellectual pattern.

When Bonnke was bucking for his beginning, he sought
cooperation from local churches for his first crusade. The answer they gave was
that anyone can say, ‘The Lord spoke to me.’ Supposing that this story is true,
they were right to put him off like that, and Bonnke should have never been
given access by anyone to speak anywhere on anything regarding the Bible. After
he got his way, how did his venture take flight? Only 100 persons showed up at
his first meeting. But why so many after that? Because of core doctrines
preached by a holy minister at his first meeting? No, but because of ‘healings’
in the crowd. God does not put a propeller behind you, Bonnke says. But that’s
just about what he claims God did for him. “Sermonettes are for
Christianettes,” he says. That’s his way of belittling hard work, learning, and
preparation. What did he do instead of preach a carefully wrought sermon? He
performed for the audience, and by chicanery or emotive influence, some
phenomena occurred. What followed after that? Crowds followed, for the world is
full of easily deceived sinners who run after wonders even while their souls
are sinking down toward hell. And when they show up, what happens to their excitable
selves? The lucky ones have hands laid on them or they collapse, or both. Are
they taught anything about the Bible and made to feel their sins thereby? No,
but what’s the difference? They will settle for the thrill of falling down.
Some dare to hope that they will be healed as they fall. But falling is enough
in a pinch. Nothing in a Bonnke meeting resembles what we find in the New
Testament ministries of Jesus, Peter, or Paul. What does that matter, though?
The discomposed folks who gather in meetings like this don’t know what’s in the
Bible and care little to find out. And what kind of narrow-minded bigot would
limit himself to the rule of Scripture anyway? How many ignorant folks obeyed
this man to go out as if called by the Holy Spirit to do so, only to go who
knows where and to what disappointing, and maybe even deadly, end? There are
consequences to believing the fancies of fanatics.

Any person who believes that a ministry of
reconciliation begins like Mr. Bonnke’s charade did is disconnected from
biblical history and ignorant of the history of the Church. In Acts 2 the
Spirit falls upon believers, not unconverted visitors, and much teaching on
Jesus Christ follows. In a Bonnke meeting, we are led to believe that the
Spirit falls upon unconverted visitors through a man who preaches nothing but
stories of himself! This rancid talk he gives about God using ordinary people,
for instance, has no doctrine in it except the bare mention of salvation and
Jesus’ death. And we are told, even during a rant in which no doctrine is
expounded or explained that the finger of God is moving through the stadium! It
is more likely that seeds planted in a snow-bank would sprout! The Spirit was
not moving in this meeting any more than he moved over the pages of Bonnke’s
Bible that time he was ‘told’ by God to read 1 Chronicles. If you have ears to
hear spiritual things, maybe you will pick up on the spiritual meaning of this
story he tells. Here it is: the finger of God moving over the pages of a Bible,
that’s nothing; but the finger of God moving in a Bonnke crowd, this is
everything. That person is in a sorry spiritual state, or at least in a
spiritually stunted condition, who believes that salvation or healing falls
from the sky subsequent to a minister shouting for an hour about nothing but
himself and his unbelievable experiences. That person needs education on the
bare necessities of sacred Scripture if he believes that, and he probably needs
to be saved besides. “All the wisdom in man will not save the world.” This is
Bonnke’s way of saying that doctrines (teachings on justification,
regeneration, repentance, etc.) are not necessary. I know that ‘wisdom of man’
and ‘doctrine’ are not synonymous. But I tell you, the context and tone lead me
to insist that this is his way of dismissing saving doctrines. These doctrines
are nothing to him but the contents of man’s wisdom. He has no time, patience,
or diligence for doctrine. What need of actual sermons? No need. He will get
people to respond to his enthusiastic yelling, pacing, and fist clenching. That
is his method: self-caused exuberance instead of warm, careful exposition. It
is the easiest and fastest way to get a rise from the audience. His mad zeal
reminds me of a certain woman who used to exclaim, ‘Stop the insanity!’ Or of a
certain man who used to strain his veins with, ‘Technique!’ Mr. Bonnke might as
well be a walking infomercial parody, so little does his performance exude holy
spirituality! He is a good actor, though, and has a hypnotic effect on deluded,
passive souls. If the man did not expect us to take him seriously, it would be
safe to say that he is entertaining. What characterizes a sermon during a
meeting in which the finger of God is present? Is a revival sermon about the
minister and his experiences? Or is it about the most holy things of God?
Edward Griffin has written a competent, dependable summary of what a revival
sermon contains. He experienced, under his ministerial leadership, genuine
revival in Massachusetts
in the 1820’s. We should listen to such a man. What does he say? “In those
revivals unwearied pains were taken to lay open the divine character in all its
benevolence, holiness, and justice; to present the divine government in all its
righteousness and purity, in all its sovereignty and covenant faithfulness, in
all its reasonableness and benignity and awful terror; to lay open the carnal
heart, festering with every evil passion, and the horrid nature of sin, with
its infinite demerits; to explain the great provision of the atonement and the
terms of acceptance with God; to bring out the mercy which melts in the gospel
and to press home the invitation; to show the reasonableness and sincerity of
God in his treatment of sinners, and the unreasonableness of their obstinacy in
rejecting the gospel” (W. B. Sprague’s Lectures
on Revivals, p. 415.) Quite different, this, than speaking about the self!
The results are different as well. What can we expect as the result of Bonnke’s
frantic exercises up on his fancy stage? We may expect the same as the outcome
witnessed by Edward Griffin during revivals that were false: “The people, who
were stupid before, relapse into the same stupidity at the end of the
protracted meeting” (p. 415.)

A prophet may be discovered false by many avenues of
inquiry. He is usually interactive, asking for Amens from the audience, for
example (the case here.) He either preaches doctrine falsely, or he dismisses
doctrine altogether; again, the case here. A false prophet usually occupies a
glittering stage, which is the case here as well. And false prophets of the
charismatic stripe always focus more on personal experiences and manifestations
than on the life, death, and merits of Christ and the doctrines that are
connected with closing with him for salvation. In other words, redemption by
Christ, and his righteousness to a sinner’s account through faith, these are
facts not considered worthy of expositing or preaching, while claims of bodily
healing and other modern miracles take center stage. The false prophet is
usually about the business of temporary, transient things (like money and
popularity) at the expense of the soul. And, as if by the gift of God for the
naïve, the gullible, the simple, and the credulous, the false prophet will wear
on his sleeve the denial of some basic biblical reality. Here, for example,
that comes in the form of a mantra emotionally exclaimed: ‘Hell empty; heaven
full!’ Even the dullest reader of Scripture ought to notice an error when a
speaker’s pet phrase contradicts a fundamental spiritual reality that is set in
stone by God in the Bible. Hell is not empty right now, and it never will be
empty. That this phrase is just Mr. Bonnke’s way of expressing his desire for
the salvation of all is no worthwhile counter argument. A true prophet, while
he may desire the salvation of all or any, submits to the will of God that is
written in the Bible. And he chooses phrases that are in line with that.

But for me, what mostly singles out the false
prophet from the true one is his attitude toward God. This indicator is not as
easy to spot as some of the others. Familiarity with a godly attitude is
necessary for one to be able to spot irreverence. If a person listens only to
speakers who are irreverent, and therefore imagines, when he reads the Bible,
that the Psalmist spoke in a saucy manner too, and that this manner is the holy
norm, he will not recognize irreverence even when it stands before him
disrespecting God. The discerning spirit will feel the irreverence come across,
as it does here when Mr. Bonnke tells the story of how he used to skip the
first part of 1 Chronicles while executing his reading plan. Seeing and hearing
this man repeating and shouting ‘In Jesus’ name!’ and ‘Glory to God!’ will
repulse every spirit that is acquainted with the spirit of the Psalms. This
man’s exclamatory utterances will sicken the soul of any person who has had
sweet fellowship with any portion of Scripture that is conspicuous for exalting
any Member of the Holy Trinity. Those who are filled with admiration for a man
who labors to exude energy will take Mr. Bonnke’s demeanor for German passion
or even holy zeal. My suggested treatment for this false interpretation is
this: Listen to this man and then pause to read Psalm 8 or Psalm 26. Go back
and forth, from the spirit of Bonnke to the Psalmist, and if you feel no
difference, God help you, for then you cannot be very near God’s kingdom. Read
a verse from the Bible where God is extolled: “I will praise thee, O LORD, with
my whole heart; I will shew forth all thy marvellous works” (Psalm 9.1.) Then listen to Bonnke say to God: “I do the
preaching, and you bring the people!” If you are not struck by the difference
there between a holy tone and a sneering voice, then I might go so far as to say
that there is little hope for cure to your blind eyes and ears. But the God who
is little esteemed by Bonnke knows for sure if you are one of those, or not,
who is beyond curing and left over to endure his everlasting curse. “If you
love the praise of man, the criticism of man will destroy you.” That is a rare
jewel from Reinhard Bonnke, albeit lacking polish, for criticism is often for
our good. It may be safer to say: If you love the praise of man so much that
you have no regard for criticism, you might be in danger of missing the advice
that would save you from Ultimate Destruction in Hell. “Reproofs of instruction
are the way of life” (Proverbs 6.23.)

Monday, August 26, 2013

Red Deer Advocate, April 19th,
2010. The Vatican
has known about child sexual abuse among its priests since at least 1993,
according to this piece of news. Those who know their Roman Catholic history
will tell you that the Vatican
is as evil as it is old, and that it has been trying to cover its bloody tracks
from the start.

It
says here that Pope Benedict ‘expressed shame and sorrow’ at the pain suffered
by sex-abuse victims. A person can express shame and sorrow without any
repentance going on in his soul and without determining to make restitution for
the wrongs done by his priests. This pontiff continues to drag his feet where
justice is concerned. When have we heard him rail about these priests deserving
jail? Never! A person who is in charge of pedophile priests, if he really had
sorrow and shame in his heart about their endless abuses, would be pounding his
Bible for justice! He would be assisting the law to root these priests out and
get them into prison! But no, all he does is ‘express,’ and usually in the
Latin tongue so nobody will understand! He does not preach—he does not
demand—he does not guarantee justice. His expression is a show. And to merely
‘express’ is a weak show at that! Yea, it is a much weaker expression of
remorse than that of Judas Iscariot: “I have sinned in that I have betrayed the
innocent blood” (Matthew 27.4.) Will Pope Benedict confess as much as Judas
Iscariot did? Of course not!

Pope
Benedict’s concern is not justice. His concern is the same as that of
Archbishop Collins, his obedient spokesman. Notice that it is ‘the impact of
the scandals on the church’ that Mr. Collins is concerned about. When crimes by
priests are still under cover, how does the Vatican treat its perverted
perpetrators? This news article is poorly written. But it seems to be trying to
communicate that the Vatican
promoted an official to one of its top posts in spite of having knowledge of
his pedophilic sins. The Vatican
treats its pedophiles rather well, even to the extent of handing them
promotions! and not just average promotions either! but promotions to top
posts! Incidentally (though we do not intimate that Mr. Collins may be a
child-predator), Archbishop Collins is now, as of January 2012, Cardinal
Collins, so well does he enunciate what Pope Benedict wants to him to say!

I would never say that New Testament Pharisees were as
evil as today’s Roman Catholic officials. But the result that follows from
promoting perverted priests is the same as that achieved by Pharisees upon
making converts: “ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves”
(Matthew 23.15.) What is worse than a pedophile priest? Answer: a pedophile
priest with more power. How many pedophile priests have been promoted to the
rank of bishop? How many to the rank of cardinal? How many have been chosen by
cardinals to sit as pope? God knows. And we know this for sure: Church
officials who knowingly promote pedophiles to higher posts are not holy and not
saved. Therefore their doctrines, practices, and religion must be examined
against the Bible. And then the seeker after truth must either remain in the
Roman Catholic pew, or else take a walk. Can the narrow path to heaven be
through the widespread darkness of Roman Catholicism? Begin your research with
that question in mind. A bias in favor of holiness is okay.

Tuesday, August 20, 2013

(City Light
News, June 2013.) The writer of this article is puzzled that faithlessness
and church attendance are on the increase together. The answer just happens to
be in the big question period at the head of the article: ? Doctrinally anemic programs like Alpha (which has the big ? on the cover of its book) are largely
responsible for the increase of both faithlessness and church attendance.
‘Creative engagement’ is less offensive and judgmental than preaching; and so
it’s an attractive way for timid Christians to give church growth a whack. You
get lots of husk but not a lot of kernel that way, many unbelievers, but few
converts. Church growth, of whatever sort, must be what Alpha pastors are
after.

This is how dull the talking heads at church
meetings are. Faithlessness and church attendance are up. The cause of this
strange harmony: faithless programs that plant infidels in God’s Church. Not
realizing what the cause is, these heads of churches (ever talking, never
preaching) put their programmed heads together around some boardroom table and
decide to take advantage of the paradox by setting up a whole campaign of
programs! Yes, Alberta 2013! That’s
the newest gospel replacement. Get ready, not for revival, but for a bumper
crop of faithlessness. ‘Building bridges’ has a positive, constructive sound.
The problem is that the bridges lead to everywhere but the cross. The campaign
“will provoke people to ‘Question Everything.’” Yes, people will be provoked to
question many things—except the merits of all these faithless Alpha courses!
People are distracted by many things, it says in the article. Yes, they are
distracted by many things, not the least of which are programs like Alpha! Did
Peter or Paul and their Master try to ‘creatively engage’ sinners with
innocuous programs whose way of witnessing is to make faithless sinners feel
they have faith already? No, but the New Testament model is just too
discriminate and offensive for bloodless pastors to use. All their weak hearts
can do is pump up more programs. They have no heart for preaching, no heart for
the gospel, no heart for the heart of Christianity. They’re scared right down
to their shriveled up arteries. The truths that made great preachers of old
bubble up with heat and light, our pastors turn white at the suggestion of. To
preach down to sinners a gospel from above is a horrid thing to these men. To
say ‘repent’ with distinction, detail, and exclamation is the shibboleth they
can’t utter. They are foreigners to preaching, just as the men of Ephraim were
foreigners to the word that they couldn’t pronounce. They ‘compass land and
sea’ to make proselytes to programs, but take no steps at all to becoming
proselytes to preaching in order to save the souls they gather. The gospel is
their shame; programs are their crown. Alpha is their smooth way; the Way of
Life is too rough for them.

“For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for
it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew
first, and also to the Greek” (Romans 1.16.) And notice: “But we preach Christ
crucified, unto the Jews a stumbling-block, and unto the Greeks foolishness” (1
Corinthians 1.23.) Many who are preached to stumble at the word and cause
trouble, like the unbelieving Jews who continually hunted the head of Paul.
Many others who are preached to regard the word as foolish, and so the
preachers of it they treat as fools. Caving in to such responses is what Paul
warned Timothy not to do: “Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of
our Lord” (2 Timothy 1.8.) Jamieson, Fausset, & Brown on this: “Paul…felt
it necessary to stir him up and guard him against the possibility of
unchristian dereliction of duty as to bold confession of Christ.” Is Alpha’s
cowardly approach a bold confession? It is because pastors have caved in to the
pressure of the possibility of persecution that they resort to programs in
place of preaching. They will not risk so much as being called fools for the
sake of preaching Christ. Caving in is what pastors do through Alpha and
similar inoffensive, seeker-friendly, creatively engaging, ecumenical-minded
courses and programs. To be ashamed of preaching Christ crucified is to be
ashamed of Christ, if anything is.

What kind of message does God use to effect revival
but the effective, faithful preaching of his holy word? Here is the sort of
content that a revival message contains, in the words of a minister actually
used by God in a broad way: “The object was to make the impenitent feel that
they were under a righteous condemnation, that they had destroyed themselves,
that their hearts were entirely alienated from God, that in this alienation lay
their guilt and not their excuse, that, of course, they were bound to repent and
become reconciled to God without a moment’s delay, that, nevertheless, so
desperate was the depravity of their hearts that nothing short of the power of
the Holy Ghost would ever subdue it, and that God was under no obligation to
exert that power. So far as could be known at the time, and so far as the
‘fruits’ enable us to determine, these and other kindred truths were ‘the power
of God unto salvation’, to multitudes that were ready to perish. The design was
to exalt God and bring the sinner in guilty at every step, not to terrify even
the vilest transgressor so as to render him incapable of reasoning and
reflection, but to induce him, under the strong convictions of an enlightened
conscience, to ‘flee from the wrath to come’, and ‘lay hold on eternal life’”
(Heman Humphrey, in W. B. Sprague’s Lectures
on Revivals of Religion, p. 360.)
Do ministers leading Alphapreach
like this? I know that they do not. Do they even try? I don’t think so.
Preaching Christ crucified involves more than coaxing people to a ‘decision.’

Are you a pastor seeking to gain a world of
churchgoers through faithless programs? Are you willing to receive churchgoers
as church members, no matter how worldly and unrepentant they may be? Let the
Scriptures reason you out of that for the good of your own soul and the poor
multitudes that you refuse to really preach to. “For what is man advantaged, if
he gain the whole world, and lose himself, or be cast away? For whosoever shall
be ashamed of me and of my words, of him shall the Son of man be ashamed, when
he shall come in his own glory, and in his Father’s, and of the holy angels”
(Luke 9.25, 26.) If these verses seem not to touch you, then consider that you
may be spiritually blind. If you will not consider that you may be spiritually
blind, then count on it: you are spiritually blind for sure, for a man whose
eyes have been opened by the grace of God will not begrudge to examine his
profession of faith. Hath God given you a spirit of fear? (2 Timothy 1.7.)

Wednesday, August 14, 2013

Red
Deer Advocate, April 19th, 2010. Says the
archbishop drone: Roman Catholic sexual abuse scandals are ‘dramatic
exceptions’ to the good work done by priests. In light of all the pedophilic
crimes that are being discovered within the ranks of the Roman priesthood, it
is more accurate to call these scandals ‘commonplace villainies,’ not ‘dramatic
exceptions.’

As to the good work that priests do, it is
during their supposed work that they commit their crimes. And what of all the
good work that is done by priests who are not pedophiles? Their chief work is
to teach or perform ceremonies like the Mass, which is the heresy that pretends
Christ can be sacrificed anew to some benefit for sinners, when, in fact, the
Bible teaches that there is no more acceptable sacrifice to be made for sin
since Christ was crucified on the cross. So these Masses are useless and sinful
because they are needless and anti-Christian; that is, they would add to what
Christ accomplished, as if his perfect sacrifice on the cross were
insufficient. Hebrews 9.26 says that “oncein the end of the world hath he [Jesus Christ] appeared to put away sin by
the sacrifice of himself.” It does not say that regularly does he appear to put away sin by being re-sacrificed by a priest, but that once he
appeared to put away sin by the
sacrifice of himself. So it is done. It may never be done with God’s
blessing again. The fact that it is perfectly and completely done makes the
Mass unnecessary, and sinful to perform. And since that sacrifice on the cross
is sufficient to put away sin, it renders unnecessary also, all prayers to Mary
and the saints for help, and all good works that one might try to rack up for
salvation. In essence, that once-for-all, all-sufficient sacrifice condemns any
other attempt at satisfying the anger of God toward sinners. The ultimate
sacrifice for sin has been made. God is satisfied with it. And the sufficiency
of this sacrifice is what we must trust in order to be saved.

Priests love to ‘work’ with children. Given all
the pedophilia that we now know that priests have been guilty of, we cannot
blindly assume that the work they wish to do with children is really work.
After all the pedophilic indecencies that priests have been caught doing, who
could remain so ignorant and careless as to risk the bodies, virtues, and souls
of children to obtain some dubious, priestly benefit? If you leave your child
with a Roman priest, it is in the face of God the All-Seeing Judge that you do
it; and this Almighty God will have the last Word about such ‘childcare’ in the
end. Any biblical novice should be able to recognize from his little bit of
reading that God cares especially for children. So we must be cautious
(especially Roman Catholic laypersons) to leave our children with guardians who
are least likely to abuse our children. Roman Catholic priests do not qualify.

The Canadian archbishop is a Roman Catholic
‘yes-man’ who says whatever accords with the wishes and will of his master the
pope. And that Toronto’s
priests are given a ‘pastoral message’ to repeat is proof that they are not
permitted to speak for themselves when shameful scandals abound. They are the
pope’s politicians, lower-level drones who speak when they are told to speak
and who say what they are told to say. Have they wills and brains of their own?
Feelings of their own? Apparently not. The great concern they are brainwashed
to promote is the reputation of MotherChurch. Is it not more
important, righteous, and holy to throw your concern on the side of the abused
children?

Don’t be a Roman Catholic drone, whoever you
are. Read your Bible and put up personal prayers to God. He is the only Holy
Father; the other one is an imposter. While you pray, never mind your rosary.
Why not recycle that? There are none of these to be found in use among the
saints in the Bible. Speak to God from the heart, not by rote.

The Roman Catholic spokesman says that you ‘should
not be discouraged by the seemingly endless stream of victims.’ Think about
that. Multitudes of victims are discouraged. But you shouldn’t be. How does
this square with the Bible’s command to ‘weep with them that weep’? (Romans
12.15) You should weep with all the victims, but more: you should be as mad as
the hell these pedophiles ought to be cast into! It is unnatural to have no
anger about this. If you are not disturbed, ask yourself why. Are you hanging
on to your tradition in spite of your revulsion? Are you suppressing your
revulsion because you want to continue to believe that Roman Catholicism is
true and blameless and that this religious institute may some day open heaven’s
gates for you? Surely there is enough evidence by now for you to seriously
reconsider your belief that the Roman Catholic Church is the true Church. How
many atrocities will it take to make you doubt? What is the true Church? How
may I be part of it? How may I get a salvation that will one day look down on
the hell these Romish perverts deserve? These are the righteous questions that
a holy indignation would ask. Begin seeking answers to these questions, whether
you are a Roman Catholic, or just someone who shrinks from criticizing anyone.
And why not get a fresh start by setting your Roman version of the Bible aside?
You may keep to it; I would have you read it rather than nothing at all. But
would it not be nice to have a brand new Protestant KJV in your hand, big and
black, authoritative-looking, and reliable? Begin to put your quest in motion.
Get to the bottom of this Church issue, and maybe you will get to the bottom of
your own redemption while you are at it, which is your greatest need. And may
the grace of God through his Holy Spirit guide you. If you like, you may even
email me. Ask me any question you like. My email address is in my profile.

Under the new rule of Pope Francis, the rules remain
the same. Pedophile priests are protected, drones continue to drone, and
victims continue to seek justice.

Monday, August 5, 2013

Red Deer Life, July 17th, 2011. “There is no longer any
reasonable prospect of conviction.” This is the feeble excuse given by the
Crown to not pursue justice for suspected murder! Can you feel the
matter-of-factness, or flippancy of that statement? The man was sentenced for
murder once. And so never mind pursuing the other charges laid against him! How
does the Bible interpret judicial apathy like that? “They that forsake the law
praise the wicked” (Proverbs 28.4.) In other words, by refusing to punish the
wicked for his crimes, our Crown sides with the wicked against its own law.
This murderer should have been put down after his first sentence. But not only
is he allowed to live, he has the prospect of freedom too. He reaps life and
freedom by the decline of justice. The most wicked reap life and freedom by the
decline of justice in Canada.

Prior
to 1865, capital punishment extended beyond reasonable bounds in this land. For
instance, in 1803 in Montreal,
13 year old B. Clements was hanged for stealing a cow. From 1865, the death
penalty was in force for crimes of murder, treason, and rape. In 1961, the law
began to suffer its whittling down. And in 2011, murderers get to go free after
some years of confinement; some of them get to dodge jail altogether.

Execution
for the crime of murder is good sense. It makes good sense to the majority of
Canadians. As recently as 2009, an Angus Reid poll showed that 62% of Canadians
support the death penalty for the crime of murder. Why should a conservative
government fear reinstating capital punishment, then? Liberals would spin the
act as part of a wider agenda just waiting to be implemented. But a just
government should act in the direction of justice regardless of spin and
slander. Politicians, though, are more afraid of losing power than they are
zealous for righteousness.

A
lot of judicial watering down has occurred since 1961, the year when murder was
classified under capital and non-capital offences. The Bible calls this the
framing of mischief by a law (Psalm 94.20.) And this injustice brings
punishment by the LORD upon the framers and the people who support these
framers in office (verse 23.) Law is made to punish persons like murderers (1
Timothy 1.9.) Reducing execution to life, and making life into 25 years, or 10
years, or even 7 years, depending on the murder degree, is to make a law for the
murderer’s good instead of for his crime. This is outrageous to God and
dangerous for every citizen.

The Bible warns us to remember the good laws that
preceded us. “My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the
law of thy mother” (Proverbs 1.8.) 62% of us want capital punishment
reinstated. Fairly recent ancestors would agree. For progress in the sphere of
justice to occur, we must regress to pre-1961 standards. Do not be afraid to be
a spokesman for executing murderers. In Canada, believe it or not, you are
in the majority. And God himself agrees with your position.